Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
10 best books like Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War (Jeffrey A. Lockwood): For Love of Insects, Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death, Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks, An Obsession with Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect, The Animal Review: The Genius, Mediocrity, and Breathtaking Stupidity That Is Nature, A Peterson Field Guide to Insects: America North of Mexico, Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa, Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty, Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World, Cannibal Metaphysics
| Author | Thomas Eisner |
| ISBN | 0674011813 |
Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow soldiers - and you will have entered an insect world...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0547752660 |
From one of the finest naturalist/writers of our time, a fascinating investigation of Nature’s inspiring death-to-life cycle
When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his “green burial” at Bernd Heinrich’s hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed...
| Author | Juliet Eilperin |
| ISBN | 0375425128 |
A group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in Indonesia and forges a deal with villagers so it and other species...
| Author | Sharman Apt Russell |
| ISBN | 0465071600 |
Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary...
| Author | Jacob Lentz |
| ISBN | 1608190250 |
Ever since our ancestors first set eyes on a woolly mammoth and agreed that it needed hunting, human beings have been making judgments about animals. The king cobra: That's an A-plus animal. The garden snail? D-minus. On a good day.
In Animal Review, Jacob Lentz and Steve Nash give authoritative...
| Author | Donald J. Borror |
| ISBN | 0395911702 |
Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides—their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time. Detailed descriptions of insect orders, families, and many individual species are illustrated...
Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
| Author | Philip Caputo |
| ISBN | 0792263626 |
1898, Tsavo River Kenya, the British Empire employs native workers to build a railroad. Construction comes to a violent halt when two maneless lions devour 140 workers in an extended feeding frenzy that would make headlines and history all over the world. Caputo's Ghosts of Tsavo is a new quest for truth...
| Author | Craig Welch |
| ISBN | 0061537136 |
A unique blend of natural history and crime drama, Shell Games by Craig Welch is a riveting tale of rogues, scoundrels, and the hunt for nature’s bounty in the tradition of The Orchid Thief. A stranger-than-fiction true story centered around a larger-than-life character who pursued a larger-than-life...
Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
| Author | William R. Leach |
| ISBN | 0375422935 |
With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout.
From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America’s infatuation with butterflies, and the story of the naturalists who unveiled...
| Author | Eduardo Viveiros de Castro |
| ISBN | 1937561216 |
The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” After showing that Amazonian...
A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes
| Author | M. Lee Goff |
| ISBN | 0674007271 |
The forensic entomologist turns a dispassionate, analytic eye on scenes from which most people would recoil--human corpses in various stages of decay, usually the remains of people who have met a premature end through accident or mayhem. To Lee Goff and his fellow forensic entomologists, each body...
The Illustrated Insectopedia
| Author | Hugh Raffles |
| ISBN | 0375423869 |
A New York Times Notable Book
A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world.
For as long as humans have existed, insects have been...
| Author | Virginia DeJohn Anderson |
| ISBN | 0195304462 |
When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played...
Diana Wells, author of 100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names now turns her attention to something bigger—our deep-rooted relationship with trees. As she investigates the names and meanings of trees, telling their legends and lore, she reminds us of just how innately bound we are to these protectors...
| Author | Mark S. Blumberg |
| ISBN | 0195322827 |
In most respects, Abigail and Brittany Hensel are normal American twins. Born and raised in a small town, they enjoy a close relationship, though each has her own tastes and personality. But the Hensels also share a body. Their two heads sit side-by-side on a single torso, with two arms and two legs. They...
| Author | Dominique Laporte |
| ISBN | 0262621606 |
"A brilliant account of the politics of shit. It will leave you speechless."
Written in Paris after the heady days of student revolt in May 1968 and before the devastation of the AIDS epidemic, History of Shit is emblematic of a wild and adventurous strain of 1970s' theoretical writing that...
| Author | Tim Dean |
| ISBN | 0226139395 |
Barebacking—when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex—has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking...
| Author | Ian Bogost |
| ISBN | 0816678979 |
Humanity has sat at the center of philosophical thinking for too long. The recent advent of environmental philosophy and posthuman studies has widened our scope of inquiry to include ecosystems, animals, and artificial intelligence. Yet the vast majority of the stuff in our universe, and even in...
Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 1931859337 |
“China Mieville’s brilliantly original book is an indispensable guide for anyone concerned with international law. It is the most comprehensive scholarly account available of the central theoretical debates about the foundations of international law. It offers a guide for the lay reader...
| Author | Stephen Parrish |
| ISBN | 0738720569 |
Product update: The Tavernier Stones has won the 2011 Independent Publisher (IPPY) gold medal in the mystery/suspense/thriller category.
When the body of seventeenth-century mapmaker Johannes Cellarius floats to the surface of a bog in northern Germany with a 57-carat ruby clutched in his fist,...
| Author | Paul B. Preciado |
| ISBN | 8433963120 |
En plena guerra fría, el joven Hugh Hefner crea la que pronto se convertiría en la revista para adultos más vendida del mundo: Playboy. Lo que el público desconoce es su pionera labor como artífice de las casas del placer: Playboy no era simplemente una revista de chicas con o sin bikini, sino un vasto...
People, States, and Fear: An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War Era
| Author | Barry Buzan |
| ISBN | 1555872824 |
This is a highly complex and complicated work of analysis into what Security is. It is absolutely NOT intended for the skim reader or neophite in the subject. It is difficult, densely written and at times very hard to keep track of. That being said, if you manage to understand the concepts Buzan is outlining,...
Weapons of biological and chemical warfare have been in use for thousands of years, and Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs, Adrienne Mayor's exploration of the origins of controversial weaponry, draws extraordinary connections between the mythical worlds of Hercules and the Trojan...
| Author | Silvia Federici |
| ISBN | 1604863331 |
Written between 1975 and the present, the essays collected in this volume represent years of research and theorizing on questions of social reproduction and the consequences of globalization. Originally inspired by Federici's organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the topics...
